shutter

at the shore
cameras and clean getaway -
we'd argued and
gnawing on that
we walked separate paths
through rocks, old shells
and driftwood.

I saw you
as you turned and looked back at me
and I had no choice
but to take the picture,
to preserve you,
so faraway,
so evanescent.


(20 January 2007)
08 May 2011
the photo is gone, but the vision isn't...